You can configure alerts for specific assets to monitor weather-related risks. Alerts are tied to individual assets, and you can define the measurement parameters and thresholds that trigger them. An admin user can add alerts for assets.
You can filter alerts by selecting an asset tab above the asset list. When the Favorites tab is selected, you will only see and hear alerts from favorited assets. When the All, Alerting, or No alerts set tabs are selected, you will hear all alerts but only see alerts from assets related to the tab. See Adding and deleting assets from favorites list below.
For hail and lightning alerts, you can also assign alert zones. Lightning alert zones consist of up to four configurable buffer distances around the asset. Hail alerts have one buffer zone which is set to 3 km (1.86 mi) around the asset. For details about asset types (point, polyline, and polygon), see Managing assets.
Real-time lightning alerts indicate different severities of lightning activity based on the distances of the defined zones, using lightning observations from the Xweather Lightning Network as input.
Lightning forecast alerts indicate the potential of lightning to strike within the alarm buffer zone, indicated by a Storm ETA up to 60 minutes in advance. This alert clears after lightning is observed in the alarm ring, or the lightning forecast moves away from the lightning alarm buffer zone.
The Governmental weather service alert option allows Xweather Protect users to receive automated, agency-issued hazard information (e.g., tornado, flash flood, storm surge, winter storm) for assets. This feature is available for assets located in Australia (BoM), Brazil (INMET), Canada (Environment Canada), Europe (Meteoalarm), the United Kingdom (Met Office), and the United States (NWS (NOAA)). For assets outside supported countries, the alert option is visible in the map layer, but alerting is not available.
When an alert is triggered, notifications are sent to the designated users/user lists as text messages (SMS) or emails, including actionable information relevant to the event. See Managing users.
Users can enable and disable alerts. See Setting user preferences.
Creating lightning alerts
Select Map.
Select the list of assets on the left and select the asset of interest to add an alert to.
Select New alert > Next.
Select Lightning as the alert parameter and select Next.
Set the alert zone distances that trigger the alerts of the three different severity levels. The zones are freely configurable up to 100 km (62 miles) for the info alert. Option to deactivate or activate Warning radius and clear time and Info radius and clear time alerts from the toggle buttons. For each zone, you can activate or deactivate cloud-to-cloud lightning.
Select Next.
In the Advance alert time field, define how far in advance you want to receive an alert before the storm arrives (min).
Select Next.
Select user lists to notify about real-time events and forecasts. You can select one or multiple user lists for each alert zone. Selected user lists will be notified in the case of a qualifying real-time or forecast alert event via the browser application and via email/SMS according to the settings, including snooze, in user User preferences > Notifications.
Select Save.
You can edit and remove existing alerts or add new alerts.
Creating hail forecast alerts
Select Map.
Select the list of assets on the left and select the asset of interest to add an alert to.
Select New alert > Next.
Select Hail as the alert parameter and select Next.
Set the Buffer radius between 3 and 90 kilometers.
Set the Clear time between 20 and 60 minutes to define when the alert will be cleared after the last active hail alert.
Set Probability of severe hail between 0% and 15% as the minimum probability of severe hail threshold.
Set the Advance alert time horizon between 10 and 60 min ahead. Note that severe hail is defined as greater than 2.54 cm (1 inch).
Select Next.
Select one or multiple user lists to notify about forecasts. Selected user lists will be notified in the case of a qualifying forecast alert event via the browser application and via email/SMS according to the settings, including snooze, in user User preferences > Notifications.
Select Save.
You can edit and remove existing alerts or add new alerts.
This feature is available for assets located in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Europe (excluding Greece and North Macedonia).
Creating wind forecast alerts
Wind forecast alerts are displayed and notified when the forecast (up to 72 hours) includes conditions above the configured wind speed and/or gust threshold(s) for the center point or centroid of the asset. Wind forecast alert notifications are only delivered to email addresses in the user list.
Select Map.
Select the list of assets on the left and select the asset of interest to add an alert to.
Select New alert > Next.
Select Wind as the alert parameter and select Next.
Set a Forecast time horizon up to 72 hours ahead.
Set Wind height to 10, 100, or 200 meters above ground.
Set the wind speed and/or wind gust thresholds. Note that wind gust is only available 10 meters above ground level. You can activate and deactivate either threshold.
Type a threshold for your wind speed and/or gust alerts. The units used for the alert is based on the admin user preferences for wind speed at the time of the alert creation in meters per second (m/s), kilometers per hour (km/h), miles per hour (mph), or knots.
Select the threshold operator. AND requires both the wind speed and gust thresholds to be met in order to be included in the wind forecast notification.
Select Next.
Select the user list that is notified for each alert. You can add multiple user lists with Add user list.
Select the alert notification frequency of every 4 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, or once a day.
Select the starting time of the notification schedule. The starting time is configurable for the top of the hour, at any hour of the day in the admin user preferences for time zone.
Select Save.
You can edit and remove existing alerts or add new alerts.
The configured alert sends a notification at the next scheduled time milestone if there are qualifying conditions met within the time horizon.
Creating Governmental weather service alerts
Select + Add > Alert.
Select an asset from the list and Next.
Select Govt. Weather Service and Next.
Select the severity level for the alerts. All severities includes Minor, Moderate, and Extreme / Severe weather alerts. Extreme / Severe only includes catastrophic, life-threatening, and hazardous weather events. Select Next.
Select the user lists that will be notified.
Select Save.
This feature is available for assets located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For assets outside supported countries, the alert option is visible in the map layer, but alerting is not available.
Adding and deleting assets from favorites list
You can favorite assets to filter asset alerts. Select the Favorites tab to only view alerts from favorite assets. To add an asset to the favorites list:
Select Map.
Expand the list of assets on the left and select the All tab.
Select the star icon next to an asset to add to favorites.
To remove an asset from the favorites list:
Select Map.
Expand the list of assets on the left and select the Favorites tab.
Select the star icon next to an asset to remove from favorites.
Viewing and editing alert settings
Only admin users can edit alert configurations.
Select Map.
Select an asset on the asset list on the left.
To view alert settings, click the Info icon (ⓘ) to view the alert configuration.
To edit alert settings, select the Edit alert icon for the desired alert.
Select Next until the desired fields have been reviewed and updated.
Select Save to update the settings or Cancel to discard changes.
Deleting alerts
Only admin users can delete alert configurations.
Select Map.
Select an asset on the asset list on the left.
Click the Info icon (ⓘ) for the desired alert.
Select Delete and confirm.